Title 42 ends: Mayorkas says asylum-seekers at US-Mexico border subject to "swift" action | FULL

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas joined White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the daily briefing on Thursday as Title 42 is lifted. The rule has allowed the government to quickly expel migrants to Mexico, and U.S. officials have warned of difficult days ahead as the program tied to the COVID-19 pandemic ends.

Mayorkas emphasized that starting at midnight, people who arrive will be subject to “swift and immediate” immigration enforcement under Title 8. Mayorkas explained that this would mean people would be presumed ineligible for asylum and subject to steeper consequences for unlawful entry, including a minimum five-year ban on re-entry and potential criminal prosecution.

Mayorkas also added that asylum-seekers have to place “their lives and their life savings in the hands of ruthless smugglers” and that “We have not only a security obligation, but a humanitarian obligation, to cut those smugglers out.”

According to reports, asylum seekers have been showing up at the border in huge numbers in anticipation of this week’s end of the use of the restriction. The end of a key pandemic restriction marks a fundamental shift in U.S. immigration policy.

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